Jason Goodwin takes the reader on an adventurous journey through the serpentine paths of the tea trade-from China to India to London. Evoking both past and present in this lively and intriguing traveler's journal, he traces the development of the tea trade from its origins in Canton factories through the Opium Wars and the settlement of British India. His travels take him from the lost European cities of the China coast to inland China, to Calcutta, to India's high tea gardens in Bohea and Darjeeling. Full of historical and personal detail, A Time for Tea is highly informative, funny, and original. This is more than a travelogue, it is the soul of economic development.
- ISBN10 0394579410
- ISBN13 9780394579412
- Publish Date 27 August 1991
- Publish Status Unknown
- Out of Print 2 February 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
- Edition American ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 287
- Language English